Preliminary Schedule ISPCS 2008 - Overview

Monday, September 22nd: Plug-Fest

8:30

Breakfast, Registration and Plug-Fest Setup

9:30

Plug-Fest

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12:30

Lunch

13:30

Plug-Fest

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Tuesday, September 23rd: Plug-Fest and Plug-Fest Viewing

8:30

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Plug-Fest

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13:00

Lunch

14:00

Plug-Fest Viewing

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16:00

Plug-Fest Takedown

Wednesday, September 24th: Conference Day 1

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Opening Session

9:30

Technical Session 1: System Issues

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10:50

Coffee Break

11:05

Technical Sponsor Presentations

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13:00

Come-Together Afternoon

including Lunch, Poster Session, Industrial Exhibits, Tutorials, Networking, and "Bird of a Feather"-Session
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Thursday, September 25th: Conference Day 2

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Keynote: Time Synchronization and Internet QoS: Challenges and Solutions

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10:00

Coffee Break

10:20

Technical Session 2: Research in Precision Clock Synchronization

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12:30

Lunch

14:00

Technical Session 3: Performance

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15:45

Coffee Break

16:00

Plug-Fest Report

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16:10

Technical Session 4: Applications

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19:00

Conference Dinner

Friday, September 26th: Conference Day 3

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

8:45

Technical Session 5: Real-Time Performance

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10:05

Technical Session 6: Military Applications

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11:00

Coffee Break

11:15

Technical Session 7: Clock Synchronization in Wireless

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13:00

Closing Session

Preliminary Schedule ISPCS 2008 - In Detail

Monday, September 22nd: Plug-Fest

8:30

Breakfast, Registration and Plug-Fest Setup

9:30

Plug-Fest

Chairs: Ken Harris and Anatoly Moldovansky
12:30

Lunch

13:30

Plug-Fest

Chairs: Ken Harris and Anatoly Moldovansky

Tuesday, September 23rd: Plug-Fest and Plug-Fest Viewing

8:30

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Plug-Fest

Chairs: Ken Harris and Anatoly Moldovansky
13:00

Lunch

14:00

Plug-Fest Viewing (all conference attendees are welcome)

Chairs: Ken Harris and Anatoly Moldovansky

During this special viewing session at the end of the plug-fest all conference participance will have the opportunity to talk to the companies and engineers attending the plugfest.
16:00

Plug-Fest Takedown

Wednesday, September 24th: Conference Day 1

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Opening Session

Prof. Yoram Koren, Director of University of Michigan Engineering Research Center for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. , Georg Gaderer and Kang Lee, IPSCS 2008 General Co-Chairs, James Moyne, Local ISPCS 2008 Organizing Chair
9:30

Technical Session 1: System Issues

Chair: Ya-Shian Li-Baboud

Synchronizing PTPv1 and PVPv2 Clients with a Common Time Source
Heiko Gerstung

Spider Transparent Clock
John Eidson, Andrew Fernandez, Bruce Hamilton, Jad Naous, Dieter Vook

Limits of Synchronization Accuracy Using Hardware Support in IEEE 1588
Patrick Loschmidt, Reinhard Exel, Anetta Nagy, Georg Gaderer
10:50

Coffee Break

11:05

Technical Sponsor Presentations

Chair: John Eidson

Rockwell Automation

LXI

IXXAT

MEINBERG

Symmetricom

FLEXIBILIS

Hirschmann

Come-Together Afternoon

13:00

Lunch Reception
Finger food and drinks are served during the whole afternoon

14:00

Industrial Exhibition

Poster Session

Chair: James Moyne
16:00

IEEE 1588 Version 2 Tutorial

Geoffrey Garner (Chair: Hans Weibel)

"Birds of a Feather"-Session

Chair: John Eidson

Thursday, September 25th: Conference Day 2

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

9:00

Keynote

Chair: Albert Treytl

Time Synchronization and Internet QoS: Challenges and Solutions
Fred Baker
10:00

Coffee Break

10:20

Technical Session 2: Research in Precision Clock Synchronization

Chair: Alessandra Flammini

Software-Only Implementations of Slave Clocks with Sub-microsecond Accuracy
Akihiko Machizawa, Tsukasa Iwama, Hiroshi Toriyama

An Application Framework for IEEE 1588 Standard
Eugene Y. Song, Kang Lee

The Cost of Variability
Julien Ridoux, Darryl Veitch

IEEE 1588 Syntonization and Synchronization Functions Completely in Hardware
Sven Meier, Hans Weibel, Karl Weber

Practical Application of 1588 Security
Bernd Hirschler, Albert Treytl
12:30

Lunch

14:00

Technical Session 3: Performance

Chair: Kang Lee

PTP Slave Clock Accuracy on Circuit Emulation System Performance
Monika Pinchas

Overview and Timing Performance of IEEE 802.1AS
Michael Johas Teener, Geoffrey Garner

Achieving Precise Coordinated Cluster Time in a Cluster Environment
Steven Froehlich, Michel Hack, Xiaoqiao Meng, Li Zhang

Master Failures in the Precision Time Protocol
Georg Gaderer, Stefano Rinaldi, Nikolaus Kerö
15:45

Coffee Break

16:00

Plug-Fest Report

Chairs: Ken Harris and Anatoly Moldovansky
16:10

Technical Session 4: Applications

Chair: John MacKay

Improving Reliability of IEEE1588 in Electric Substation Automation
Jean-Charles Tournier, Xiao Yin

Application of IEEE 1588 to Industrial Automation
Ken Harris

Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Data Acquisition Simulation for Timing Performance Analysis
James Moyne, Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Sulaiman Hussaini, Xiao Zhu

Time Synchronization Successes and Challenges in the Semiconductor Industry
Gino Crispieri
19:00

Conference Dinner

Friday, September 26th: Conference Day 3

8:00

Breakfast and Registration

8:45

Technical Session 5: Real-Time Performance

Chair: Thilo Sauter

Evaluation of Clock Synchronization Accuracy of Coexistent Real-Time Ethernet Protocols
Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Stefano Rinaldi, Georg Gaderer

1µs-conform Line Length of the Transparent Clock Mechanism defined by the Precision Time Protocol (PTP Version 2)
Ruxandra Lupas-Scheiterer, Chongning Na, Dragan Obradovic, Guenter Steindl, Franz-Josef Goetz

Characterizing Network Synchronization Potential with the minTDEV Statistic
Greg Dowd, George Zampetti
10:05

Technical Session 6: Military Applications

Chair: Bruce Hamilton

Navy Shipboard Time Synchronization Service Options and Analysis
Mark Glass, Karen O'Donoghue

A Sensor Network Architecture for Military and Crisis Management
Timo Koskiahde, Jouni Kujala, Tomi Norolampi
11:00

Coffee Break

11:15

Technical Session 7: Clock Synchronization in Wireless

Chair: Georg Gaderer

Towards an Adaptive Synchronization Policy for Wireless Sensor Networks
Anton Ageev, David Macii, Alessandra Flammini

Non invasive Time Synchronization for ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks
Paolo Ferrari, Alessandra Flammini, Daniele Marioli, Emiliano Sisinni, Andrea Taroni

IEEE 1588 Style Synchronization over a Wireless Link
Hamza Abubakari, Shivakumar Sastry

Localization and Clock Synchronization Need Similar Hardware Support in Wireless LANs
Smruti Parichha, Mart Molle
13:00

Closing Session

Chairs: Ya-Shian Li-Baboud, Albert Treytl, James Moyne